Ok, guys.....

I got redhat 8.0 running on my Dell Dimension 4100 512 Mg ram and 80Gigs + 60 Gigs hd. Natural Pro Microsoft keyboard (USB) and Microsoft Intellimouse explorer (USB).

Things are working fine except that my mouse is not running in usb mode and I can't get it to fully work (scroll and other extra button).

from my XF86Config
Section "InputDevice"
# Modified by mouseconfig
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Buttons" "5"
EndSection

if I do this:
[root@localhost pat]# /sbin/lsmod
Module Size Used by Not tainted
ide-cd 33608 0 (autoclean)
cdrom 33696 0 (autoclean) [ide-cd]
es1371 30760 1
soundcore 6532 4 [es1371]
ac97_codec 13384 0 [es1371]
gameport 3396 0 [es1371]
mousedev 5524 1 (autoclean)
input 5888 0 (autoclean) [mousedev]
autofs 13348 0 (autoclean) (unused)
smbfs 43680 2 (autoclean)
3c59x 30640 1
iptable_filter 2412 0 (autoclean) (unused)
ip_tables 14936 1 [iptable_filter]
scsi_mod 107176 2
ntfs 58944 1 (autoclean)
nls_iso8859-1 3516 3 (autoclean)
nls_cp437 5116 2 (autoclean)
vfat 13084 2 (autoclean)
fat 38712 0 (autoclean) [vfat]
ext3 70368 2
jbd 52212 2 [ext3]
I see mousedev but I don't know what that is.

If I type modprobe usb-uhci in a terminal window, the terminal goes beserk (its like the enter keys is stock or what) and I need to manually restart the computer....

How can I get usb to be up and running???

thanks

pat

WTF!!! got it working......

The reason why /sbin/modprobe uhci was hanging my computer was because of an issue with acpi. so I turned it off "noacpi" boot param.

Then I did modprobe in this order: keybdev mousedev hid input uhci then finally I did xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5"

and it worked!